American foreign policy since World War II /
Steven W. Hook, John Spanier.
- 18th ed.
- Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2010.
- xxiii, 431 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The American approach to foreign policy -- From world war to cold war -- Containment : from theory to practice -- North-South tensions and Vietnam War -- Dâetente and world-order politics -- The revival of superpower confrontation -- The end of the cold war -- America's 'unipolar moment' -- Old tensions in a new order -- The shifting European landscape -- America under fire -- Hot wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- A world of trouble -- America's reckoning.